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The LLM Sycophancy Antidote

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12 points·by mceachen·4개월 전·1 comments

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mceachen
·19일 전·discuss
If you're really wanting to do perceptual hash based deduplication, use multiple, heterogeneous hash algorithms (phash, dct hash, mean hash, ...) as it is likely that a given hash algo will happily lossily match with very very different images--but if all hashes match, you're much less likely to have false positives.

I wrote up what I do here: https://photostructure.com/guide/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupli...
mceachen
·21일 전·discuss
More than 3 channel displays have been attempted by several companies, but I suspect they fail due to:

1) trying to convince content makers to use new custom high-gamut hardware to capture the new spot colors

2) you'd need a full video content production pipeline that can render to that color space

3) finding enough people to care enough to pay the (substantial) premium for niche production numbers.

4) Most content just doesn't warrant high gamut unless it's narrated by David Attenborough.

So, you have both a chicken and egg problem, and not that big of a TAM to warrant the struggle.
mceachen
·22일 전·discuss
Here's how to do it with more recent versions of Hugo:

https://photostructure.com/coding/hugo-markdown-output/

(It includes the grandparent's head link suggestion, but it's not just "change .html to .md" because I'm old skool and as a wee nerd was told that URLs ending in .html or .php or whatever we're frowned on, so the above link's markdown is available by appending /index.md )
mceachen
·지난달·discuss
It's worse: Google added and then dropped even experimental support of jxl in 2021-2022. Several years later they adopted the rust jxl library, but have kept it behind experimental flags.
mceachen
·지난달·discuss
"No nukes" was Sun Microsystems lawyers' liability reduction, not a political statement.

See https://www.lawinsider.com/clause/note-on-java-support/_2 for the specific verbiage and diffs over time.
mceachen
·2개월 전·discuss
If your engineer tells you that, you're going to have a bad time.

I think you're thinking this:

> If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late. -Reid Hoffman
mceachen
·2개월 전·discuss
Nope, current flagship models are very happy to make huge missteps across the whole development stack of design, planning, implementation, and testing -- but playing different models against each other can help catch more egregious issues.
mceachen
·2개월 전·discuss
This is a very recent model behavior change: for me, Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and ChatGPT 5.4(ish) -- prior models and harnesses suffered much more from sycophancy.

(I still prompt some questions and reviews with "our intern suggested..." to allow models to judge the quality of the content apart from the messenger)
mceachen
·2개월 전·discuss
I've found this surprisingly effective. Higher "thinking levels" may result in more than one approach being considered, but you can also tell your LLM to do brainstorming explicitly: https://photostructure.com/coding/claude-code-replan/
mceachen
·2개월 전·discuss
I applied it to PhotoStructure more than a year ago—I think it was when I first saw this on HN?

My point is that there *is* such a thing as software that tries to respect their users. I'm not the only one.
mceachen
·3개월 전·discuss
Random crowd anecdata is still anecdata.
mceachen
·3개월 전·discuss
Since when did corporations care? Most seem to just pay their insurance premium for cyber liability and call it a day.
mceachen
·3개월 전·discuss
Yup. No noxious fumes.
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
Roughly:

`ssh remote "cd $src/repo ; git diff" | git apply`

(You'll need to season to taste: what to do with staged changes, how to make sure both trees are in the same HEAD, etc)
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
12 year old me would have sold their skateboard AND their bike to have a magic Patiently Explain Anything And Everything To Me robot instead of the mostly-impenetrable-to-my-tween-brain software engineering books I had access to in my town.
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
He discusses this and his sixpence wager here: https://youtu.be/pJgKYn0lcno

(Source: TFA)
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
No mention of auto renewal is made as far as I (and Claude) could determine.

Their OSS offer is first-hit-is-free.
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
At the same time, at least to me, the text reads like a transcript from one of their YouTube tear downs.
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
Before anyone downvotes this guy, spend some time on the official Apple support forum.

I can't point at a bug that I've seen addressed in subsequent OS releases.

Seizure-inducing HDMI flickering from Night Shift. Finder Trash not supporting put-back _sometimes_. Printers becoming permanently "paused" sporadically, or worse, very consistently. Mouse lag/stuttering because you used "the wrong USB port." Apple photos libraries corrupting themselves with no recovery paths.

It would be strictly better to just not have the forum, then shouting sorrows into the void would feel more solitary.
mceachen
·4개월 전·discuss
Currently profitable? Many are old enough to have a generic, and are close to the cost of aspirin at this point.